pissaladière
noun
pis·sa·la·dière
pēsäläˈdyer
plural -s
: an open-faced pastry topped with olives, onions, and anchovies
Word History
Etymology
French, from Provençal (Nice) pissaladiero, from pissala preserved crushed and salted fish, from pis, peis fish (from Old Provençal peis, from Latin piscis) + sala, past participle of sala to salt, from Old Provençal salar
First Known Use
1951, in the meaning defined above
- the off
- the offside
- the old adam
- the old country
- the old guard
- the old heave-ho
- the old school
- the Old Testament
- the old world
- the oldest profession
- the Olympic Games
- the Olympics
- the one about
- the one and only
- the only (person or thing) for
- the only for
- the only game in town
- the only person or thing for
- the only thing
- the open air
- the open road
- the open sea
- the opera
- the opposite sex
- the opposite side of the coin